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Bookmark or Share- The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays by C.J. Hauser | Goodreads“The Crane Wife” as CJ explains is a story from Japanese folklore. TLDR: it’s about a crane bird who tricks a man into thinking she is a woman so she can marry him. But in doing so, she commits to an exhausting process of shedding and erasing her true desires and identity just to keep this man.
- The Paris Review - The Crane Wife - The Paris Review“The Crane Wife” is a story from Japanese folklore. I found a copy in the reserve’s gift shop among the baseball caps and bumper stickers that said GIVE A WHOOP. In the story, there is a crane who tricks a man into thinking she is a woman so she can marry him.
- The Crane Wife - Penguin Random HouseA memoir in essays that expands on the viral sensation “The Crane Wife” with a frank and funny look at love, intimacy, and self in the twenty-first century.
- Tsuru no Ongaeshi - WikipediaIn The Crane Wife story, a man marries a woman who is in fact a crane disguised as a human. To make money, the crane wife plucks her own feathers to weave silk brocade, which the man sells, but she becomes increasingly ill as she does so. When the man discovers his wife's true identity and the nature of her illness, devastated by the truth, he ...
- Book Review: “The Crane Wife” by CJ Hauser - The New York TimesIn the Japanese folk tale of the crane wife, a crane masquerades as a human woman and convinces a man to marry her. To keep up the ruse, she stays up every night plucking out her feathers.
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